Hammer & Tickle

The story of a political system that was laughed out of existence.

Hammer & Tickle — Plot

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.

• Release date
• January 8, 2007
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Director
• Ben Lewis

Hammer & Tickle — Cast

Wojciech Jaruzelski Self

R

Roy Medvedev Self

G

Günter Schabowski Self Peter Sodann Self Lech Wałęsa Self Mikhail Gorbachev Self (archive footage) Václav Havel Self (archive footage) Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage)